Example sentences of "would [adv] likely have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 2 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 3 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |
| 4 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 5 | plaintiff wife of deceased was pregnant at time of deceased 's death but later miscarried. held that as plaintiff would most likely have given up work to take care of her baby therefore the joint earnings approach to calculating dependency was not appropriate . |
| 6 | Studying the fossil record enables us to show what must have happened , but , as Stephen J. Gould has been the most recent to argue , were we to be able to wind the clock of evolution backwards towards the origin of life on earth , and then run it forward once more , quite different outcomes would most likely have occurred ; not only would there probably have been no humans , but perhaps not even any brains . |
| 7 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 8 | Critics of the PLO 's decision to back the participation of a Palestinian delegation in the current Middle East peace process would most likely have taken the opportunity of Mr Arafat 's demise to make a bid for power . |
| 9 | This time , with some need to be cautious and not show her hand too soon , she said nothing to Ellen whom she judged would most likely have forgotten she had sworn to come and get Oreste herself . |
| 10 | This was probably the saving of it as it would most likely have disappeared by now . |
| 11 | As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging . |
| 12 | He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi . |